Introducing Open Webnesday
Every few months over the last four years that we’ve been in Vancouver, I’ve kept having random discussions with friends about coordinating some kind of regular free software/open source/electronic frontier/open Net professional development meeting. While it made for relaxed after-dinner chatting and the occasional off-topic boardroom jam, the idea never really got legs – after all, someone would need to plan the meetings, promote the group, find speakers and so on.
One of these hypothetical persons now seems like me – for the first time in years, I’m not constantly traveling (as I try to cut my carbon footprint down to a sustainable level) and I’ve cut my working hours down to something near 40 or 50 hours a week. Also, it ties in beautifully with my Mozilla Foundation work, my VanPHPUG and OSI volunteering, and my general interests. I’m also hoping that my friend Karim Ratib will step up to the plate as an organizer.
So, a few hours of thinking, a domain name purchase and an install of Wordpress later, I’d like to introduce Open Webnesdays – a monthly professional development meeting for Web developers, bloggers, Net professionals and electronic frontier advocates.
I’m hoping to run our first meeting on March 4. I don’t yet have a venue, a schedule or speakers, but I don’t think it will be a problem to get these things within a few weeks.
Read more at http://webnesday.org
Posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 22:01
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